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INTRODUCTION
EXISTING CONDITIONS
The PDDP team began the Pawtucket Downtown Design Plan by studying the
existing conditions of the City of Pawtucket’s downtown, urban boundaries,
and region. We gathered existing information from previous reports, studies,
traffic data and projects from a variety of sources including the City of
Pawtucket’s Planning and Public Works departments, the Rhode Island
Department of Transportation, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, the
Pawtucket Foundation, local institutions and stakeholders. (A list of sources
can be found on pages 4 and 5 of the Existing Conditions Report.) This
material was also made public and available online on the PDDP website,
www.downtownpawtucket.us, under the Pawtucket Planning Database. The
PDDP team also completed a series of site observation and documentation
visits.
After reviewing and analyzing the information, the PDDP team developed a set
of maps and observations about the current conditions of public space and
street use in the plan’s area. This established the project team’s perspective on
challenges and opportunities for the plan design.
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